{"id":382,"date":"2016-06-27T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/?p=382"},"modified":"2016-06-27T16:24:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T16:24:13","slug":"site-backup-and-sundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2016\/06\/27\/site-backup-and-sundry\/","title":{"rendered":"Site backup and sundry&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent last weekend getting backup set up for the site after a scare that had me thinking I&#8217;d lost the blog side of the site. Backups now are looking good and appear to be running well. I still need to load XAMPP on my linux box and verify that I can restore the sites, but I&#8217;m pretty comfortable that will work.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what is on my agenda next in terms of technical projects but here&#8217;s a loosely form list in no particular order:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Various site related work is needed to wrap things up here and clean up some known gaps.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;d like to start playing with some real OpenGL coding. <em>Some time back I did some Direct3D stuff in the sandbox, but OpenGL is more broadly supported and the new-ish programmable pipelines are interesting, powerful and bit complicated<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m interested in experimenting with RESTful web service interfaces through my site. <em>Any sort of shared game or application is going to need something like this to store and retrieve shared information and get services from the site. I know it can be done and have dabbled in the past. I need to actually put some code together, probably with some OpenGL front end just to make it more interesting, and see something work.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve needed some file de-dup code and general archive management support for a long time now. I currently wind up shoveling huge chunks of code off onto 5TB external drives for archival storage. I know there is a ton of duplicate data on those drives, but it is cheaper and safer to keep dups rather than risk deleting something I don&#8217;t want to lose. With cryptographic hashes and some database code i should be able to ensure that I know what is where, how many copies I have and select items that need archiving rather than everything in a given area again and again.<\/li>\n<li>My email provider (same as my hosting provider) is great except that they have been taking forever to support rules based filtering. Given that they are IMAP based, I know I could put together code that looks at the email inbox, carries out folder transfers based on filtering rules and keeps my main inbox down to a sane level of clutter. Perhaps this would be a good python project? At some point soon I need to put a bit of effort in here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent last weekend getting backup set up for the site after a scare that had me thinking I&#8217;d lost the blog side of the site. Backups now are looking good and appear to be running well. I still need to load XAMPP on my linux box and verify that I can restore the sites, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2016\/06\/27\/site-backup-and-sundry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Site backup and sundry&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-blog","category-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F2Qc-6a","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}